Some facts about Hong Kong Umbrella Revolution

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Hong Kong protesters clash with police as student leaders arrested video World news The Guardian

1) Hong Kong-America Center

This Center works like this one

International Republican Institute - Profile - Right Web - Institute for Policy Studies

and this one

Home Page National Endowment for Democracy

I hope that you know about their activity.

2)Hong Kong Riddled With British Spies Reports Say - China Real Time Report - WSJ

3)The leader of Hong Kong, the Chief Executive, is currently elected by a 1200-member Election Committee, though Article 45 of the Basic Law states that "the ultimate aim is the selection of the Chief Executive by universal suffrage upon nomination by a broadly representative nominating committee in accordance with democratic procedures." A 2007 decision by the Standing Committee opened the possibility of selecting the Chief Executive via universal suffrage in the 2017 Chief Executive election,and the first round of consultations to implement the needed electoral reforms ran for five months in early 2014. Chief Executive CY Leung then, per procedure, submitted a report to the Standing Committee inviting them to deliberate whether it is necessary to amend the method of selection of the Chief Executive. On 31 August 2014, the tenth session of the Standing Committee in the twelfth National People's Congress set limits for the 2016 Legislative Council election and 2017 Chief Executive election. While notionally allowing for universal suffrage, the decision imposes the standard that "the Chief Executive shall be a person who loves the country and loves Hong Kong," and stipulates "the method for selecting the Chief Executive by universal suffrage must provide corresponding institutional safeguards for this purpose". The decision states that for the 2017 Chief Executive election, a nominating committee, mirroring the present 1200-member Election Committee be formed to nominate two to three candidates, each of whom must receive the support of more than half of the members of the nominating committee. After popular election of one of the nominated candidates, the Chief Executive-elect "will have to be appointed by the Central People's Government." The process of forming the 2016 Legislative Council would be unchanged, but following the new process for the election of the Chief Executive, a new system to elect the Legislative Council via universal suffrage would be developed with the approval of Beijing.


Does anybody think that 2017 election is a good reason to protest and riot?

4)Oh. It's funny. People in Hong Kong are protesting against the the Electoral College institution. The excuse was found.

5) Please, google next information: Who made the name "UmbrellaRevolution" up?

6) Tents, drugs, food and dry-goods were brought to the square immediately. It's strange, isn't?

7)White House Shows Support For Aspirations Of Hong Kong People

8)Land Destroyer US Openly Approves Hong Kong Chaos it Created

 

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Protestors and police clash in Hong Kong...

Hong Kong Protesters Warned Not to Return After Clashes Disrupt Government
December 01, 2014 — Hong Kong’s chief executive warned protesters not to return to the streets after they and police clashed early Monday outside government headquarters.

The clashes occurred in central Hong Kong after hundreds of demonstrators stormed past police lines early Monday in a bid to occupy a major road in the Admiralty district. Hundreds of riot police armed with pepper spray and batons pushed back, injuring several protesters and arresting at least 18. Protesters are demanding direct elections of the city’s leader in 2017. Hong Kong’s government Monday indicated it would be taking a harder line toward the protesters. The city’s chief executive, Leung Chun-ying, warned protesters from returning to the area around the government offices, saying police had been tolerant but would now take “resolute action,” suggesting that patience may have finally run out. Leung told reporters that some people have mistaken the Hong Kong police’s tolerance for weakness. Leung called for students to refrain from returning to the occupation sites Monday night.

'Plan was a failure'

Hong Kong Federation of Students leader Alex Chow said the protesters had intended to paralyze government headquarters. “The plan was a failure on the whole, given that even if some places were occupied, they were cleared by the police immediately,” Chow said. Pa Sha, one of the protesters who demonstrated outside government offices late Sunday, said, “There were thousands of people breaking through police barricades and occupying the main road outside the chief executive’s office. And during that they faced huge amount of police attacks including using batons to hit the protesters.” He said many protesters wore masks and goggles to protect themselves from the police, who used pepper spray and batons to push them away from government buildings.

A riot policeman prevents pro-democracy protesters from getting near during clashes outside the government headquarters in Hong Kong

Pa Sha also said the government’s response, so far, has failed to stop the demonstrations, even though there are divisions amongst protest organizers. “There is still a lot of energy in the people and will to fight, a will to reignite the occupation, but unfortunately the organization is very weak,” he said. Last week Hong Kong police arrested dozens of demonstrators and two leaders of the protests after clearing a popular protest site in the neighborhood of Mon Kok. Hong Kong has banned Joshua Wong, one of the most prominent student leaders, from returning to Mon Kok.

Visas denied

Meanwhile, British lawmakers called for an emergency session in parliament to discuss China’s decision to deny visas for lawmakers planning to travel to Hong Kong. The British Parliament’s Foreign Affairs Committee has been investigating Britain’s relations with the Hong Kong government. Members said they were interested in looking into how Chinese authorities were handling the protests. China’s Foreign Ministry spokesperson Hua Chunying said Hong Kong is the Special Autonomous Region of China and that the Chinese central government and Hong Kong government deal with relevant issues in accordance with law. She told reporters in Beijing Monday the lawmakers are being denied visas because China is opposed to the investigation carried out by Britain’s lower house.

Hong Kong Protesters Warned Not to Return After Clashes Disrupt Government